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The BBC’s “Down the Line”: It’s Hendrie Meets Colbert

FROM TELEGRAPH.COM

 “Last week, a young and cultishly popular talk radio host called Gary Bellamy returned to [BBC] Radio 4 for a new series of his phone-in programme, Down the Line. As an opening gambit, he had something to say about the medium. ‘Let’s face it,’ Bellamy declared, ‘the goggle-box is only good for reality TV, wannabe celebs and washed-up businessmen; newspapers have had their day; the internet’s all right as far as it goes – but nothing has the impact of radio!’”

 

“Listening to this, I wondered if radio executives across the country were earnestly scribbling Bellamy’s message down, ready to use in their next presentation to skeptical advertisers. It would be a delicious joke if they were, because Bellamy is a fictional creation of the comedian Rhys Thomas.”

 

Down the Line is a cross between The Phil Hendrie Show and The Colbert Report. Thomas plays the role of a “legendary” radio personality and fields calls from a cast of crazies played other British comedians. The show, now in its fourth series, is a hit with both listeners and critics. Naughton called the most recent show “sparklingly good stuff.”

Whoever he is he must be good!–PHS

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Citizens Auxiliary Police Brigadier Admiral Jay Santos is monitoring activity near precious metal  businesses to make sure people aren’t buying too much gold and starting a panic. He checks peoples purchases, asks them if they are trying to corner the market, if they plan on reporting the taxes and other intrusive, ignorant queries. In our next hour, Ted Bell tells Phil he was gracious enough to admit to a female customer that it was his condom she found in her baked potato and that he would be glad to comp her a new one. What does he get for his honesty? Listen…

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From Howard Goenne in the Czech Republic
Subject: Bud Dickman’s Top Ten List of Charlie Sheen’s Next Projects….give or take:
8) Two and A Half Grams
7) Citezen COCAINE
6) PORN In The USA
5) Mayberry LSD
4) Beavis And POThead
3) MTV’s “SKUNK”ed
2) TRIPLE XMen
1) Whose Line Isn’t it, Anyway